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  • Towards a Constitutional Charter for Canada

    by Albert Abel ...
    Series series Heritage
    In this timely book, edited from a manuscript left unfinished at his death, one of Canada’s leading constitutional scholars presents his prescription for constitutional change.The book diagnoses the failure of Canada’s present constitution, both in dealing with the country’s distinctive characteristics—regional identity and regional disparity—and in providing for effective national economic ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Billion Dollar Fantasy

    The High-Stakes Game between FanDuel and DraftKings That Upended Sports in America

    by Albert Chen ...
    Narrated by Chris Abell ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 41 min

    The story of the rise of daily fantasy sports, and the brilliant entrepreneurs disrupting the way we consume sportsThe inside story of the rise, fall, and rise of FanDuel and DraftKings—two companies that began as obscure start-ups and, seemingly overnight, became billion-dollar companies, and just as quickly found themselves the target of the FBI and Department of Justice and the center of a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Battle of London

    Trudeau, Thatcher, and the Fight for Canada's Constitution

    by Frédéric Bastien ...
    Translated by Jacob Homel ...
    A bestseller in Quebec that describes the horse-trading, intrigue and unrest behind Trudeau’s quest to repatriate the Constitution.After the referendum in 1980, Pierre Elliott Trudeau turned his sights on repatriating the Constitution in an effort to make Canada fully independent from Britain. What should have been a simple process snowballed into a complicated intrigue.Quebec, which thought its ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Federalism and the Constitution of Canada

    by David E. Smith ...
    The Canadian system of federalism divides the power to govern between the central federal parliament and the provincial and territorial legislative assemblies. In what can be seen as a double federation, power is also divided culturally, between English and French Canada. The divisions of power and responsibility, however, have not remained static since 1867. The federal language regime (1969), ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition

    Edited by Miriam Smith ...
    Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition updates and expands its exploration of a wide range of organized group and social movement activity in Canadian politics. Particularly distinctive is the inclusion of Quebec nationalism and Aboriginal politics. Many other areas of collective activity are also included: the Occupy movement and anti-poverty organizing, ethnocultural ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The End of the Charter Revolution

    Looking Back from the New Normal

    by Peter J. McCormick ...
    The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms became an entrenched part of the Canadian Constitution on April 17, 1982. The Charter represented a significant change in Canadian constitutional order and carried the courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, decisively into some of the biggest controversies in Canadian politics. Although the impact of the Charter on Canadian law and society was ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Patriation and Its Consequences

    Constitution Making in Canada

    Edited by Lois Harder, Steve Patten ...
    Few moments in Canadian history are as intriguing as the political battle between Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and the “Gang of Eight” provincial premiers who opposed his plans to “patriate” Canada’s constitution from Britain. This volume revisits these constitutional negotiations, including the personalities, visions, and political struggles that shaped the resulting constitutional agreement. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Reform of the House of Lords

    by Philip Norton ...
    This book is the only one of its kind, providing a clear and exhaustive analysis of the different approaches to the future of Britain’s second chamber. The House of Lords has long been the subject of proposals for reform – some successful, others not – and calls for the existing membership to be replaced by elected members have been a staple of political debate. The debate has been characterised ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Just Words

    Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs

    by Joel Bakan ...
    Series series The Canada 150 Collection
    The Canadian Charter of Rights is composed of words that describe the foundations of a just society: equality, freedom, and democracy. These words of justice have inspired struggles for civil rights, self-determination, trade unionism, the right to vote, and social welfare. Why is it, then, that fifteen years after the entrenchment of the Charter, social injustice remains pervasive in Canada?Joel ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Fishing for a Solution

    Canada’s Fisheries Relations with the European Union, 1977-2013

    by Donald Barry, Bob Applebaum, Earl Wiseman ...
    Series Book 4 - Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies
    Fishing for a Solution provides a detailed, policy-based account of the development of Canada's fisheries relations with the European Union. It covers over 35 years of this contentious international relationship, from the extension of Canada's fisheries jurisdiction to 200 miles in 1977 and the creation of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) two years later, to the development of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Constructing Neoliberalism

    Economic Transformation in Anglo-American Democracies

    by Jonathan Swarts ...
    Constructing Neoliberalism presents a rich analysis of the shift to neoliberal economic policies in four Anglo-American democracies – Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand – over the course of the 1980s and 1990s. This period witnessed a dramatic shift away from traditional post-war consensus policies of active state economic intervention, public ownership, and full employment toward those ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Cato Supreme Court Review, 2012-2013

    Edited by Ilya Shapiro ...
    Published every September in celebration of Constitution Day, the Cato Supreme Court Review brings together leading legal scholars to analyze the most important cases of the Court's most recent term. It is the first scholarly review to appear after the term's end and the only on to critique the court from a Madisonian perspective. This year's review looks at the Supreme Court's recent decisions ... Read more

    $6.99 USD